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The PositiveLeader™ Journey is a whole system leadership development program that combines discovery, coaching and experiential learning workshops to create lasting change that self-replicates inside organizations. It is a two-phase approach that spans 3 years: Year one: Foundations in Positive Leadership, Years two and three Leveling Up Leadership. Peruse our brochure for sample programs and timelines along with detailed descriptions of the programs you can choose from.

The Positive Leader Journey is the most impactful leadership program in which I have ever participated. As an L&D professional myself, I have created and implemented hundreds of leadership programs in my career but have never seen one quite like this. As a participant in the Positive Leader Journey I was able to feel the depth of the experience which enabled me to easily include the concepts into my leadership style; it felt natural and immediately rewarding. The Equus element of the program was the most impactful for my personal growth. Being able to tangibly see how my inner self impacts those around me was incredible. The idea of being centered and giving yourself permission to check your internal state helps me every day in my highly demanding executive role. Without hesitation, I would tell anyone that this is the best investment in leadership training any organization can make.

Carol Ann AmicoGrant Thornton, LLP

What’s Next After Foundation and Level Up? Based on the size of the organization, your organization can choose to bring the next level of leaders through the program, continue with the program as is and leverage new content and or continue supporting your team with executive coaching services. Some companies chose to stagger the program with different levels of leaders. For example: Year 1, Directors and VP’s participate in Foundations, year 2, Directors and VP’s move to Level Up and Senior Leaders begin with foundations. Year 3, Directors and VP’s continue on Level Up, Senior Leaders transition to Level Up (year 1) and Middle Management begins Foundations.

Not ready for a whole systems approach? Begin with our 2 – 4 day Leadership Academy. This program introduces strategic thinking and planning as well as introduces participants to our positive executive presence materials through experiential learning.

Experiential Workshops

Promise of Leadership™ Workshop (full day format)

Frames a collective view of leadership and functions as the kick-off for our PositiveLeader™ journey. It leverages the learnings of the Discovery phases, guides all future development work, delivers feedback in a peer-group context and lays the foundation for collective leadership.

Strength Based Leadership: Uniquely Talented and Predictably Successful (half to full day format)

Explores strength based leadership theory and the correlations to high performance and high engagement.

Creates common language around strengths and the role they play in “work as a calling,” highly engaged teams and managing burn out.

The identification of talents and the development of talents into strengths.

The distinction of strengths and skills.

Strengths in excess.

Thought Bridging (half to full day format)

“Don’t believe everything you think,” is the mantra of this PositiveLeader™ topic. Challenges participants to learn how to observe and dispute their own thinking. Essential to creative and critical thinking, as well as to behaviors aligned with positive outcomes.

Explores the pattern of thought-feeling-action on outcomes and how to positively intervene on your own behalf (vs. instinctive reactions).

Familiarizes participants with the essential role positive and negative emotion have on perception and motivation.

Heightened awareness brings opportunity to make different choices and get better outcomes at work and at home.

Mindful Executive™

Mindfulness is the secret of some of the world’s most successful CEOs. In an ever changing environment, managing your attention and focus is crucial to leading a team.

Explore the evidence-based benefits of mindfulness.

Practice six different mindfulness practices and find the one that fits for you.

Learn techniques for how to create time and space for mindfulness in a busy life.

Best Future Self

The pathways to extraordinary expression of self can only be pursued if they can be visualized.

Leveraging the work of Sheldon and Lyubormirsky this PositiveLeader™ creates the practice field for leaders to image, and re-imagine their personal and professional goals well into the future.

Get bold about your future.

Challenge personal and urban myths about what is possible.

Create a “break frame” to get clear about what you do want vs what you don’t want.

Engage and inspire with a clear vision of what is possible – individually, team, organizationally.

Values as Compass and Mooring (half to full day format)

Explores the theory of character strengths and how they inform leadership beliefs and behaviors.

Creates common language around values and character strengths and the role they play in courage, creativity and innovation.

Participants become aware of, and are able to manage, their “triggers.”

Explores the Theory of Well-being, introduced by Martin Seligman, Ph.D. (Upenn) in 2012 and utilized by the military to build resilience in soldiers and increase the statistical probability of post-traumatic growth.

Introduces an entirely new way to think about how one invests their life energy and to what return.

Creates common language around the conditions that allow human beings to thrive.

Provides opportunity for individuals to define their unique PERMA ratio and balancing.

Cycle of Change

Mainstream thinking is that people don’t like to change. Quite to the contrary we have been evolving at an incredible pace. Change brings volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity and it follows four predictable stages in individuals, in groups and in organizations.

Understand the predictable pattern/cycle of change and what happens to you during the cycle.

Improve cognitive and emotional ability to navigate each stage and bring your people along with you.

“If wishes were horses, beggars would ride,” an old adage that speaks to the importance of having total clarity as it relates to what you want to create in the future. Leveraging the work of Edwin Locke.

(Goal Setting Theory) and combining it with Seligman’s PERMA theory this Positive Leader.

Teaches the discipline of crafting goals and strategies that engage both the mind and the heart.

Designing multiple creative pathways for highest chance of success

Lowering resistance to change.

Sustaining effort with meaning and purpose.

Positive Communication

Courageous authenticity is the currency of organizations leading in creativity and innovation.